Robert Ruffo
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THAT’S AMAZING NEWS!
A further question:
Can existing FSI customers get their monitos re-certified via Lightspace calibration?
And a suggestion:
Now that your electronics support 3D LUTs fully, it would be great oif you added monitor emulation, like Dolby does. You could have a Sony Bravia, a Panny plasma, Old LCD, Typical Torch Mode and so on, so that clients could see how some consumers will view material, and correct problems like crazy banding (plasma) lost dark regions/faded blacks (many Best Buy LCDs) etc.
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Hi Steve!
Could you clarify:
Do FSI monitors now come pre-calibrated using Lightspace and/or your certification? Or are they still, “out-of-the-box”, the same as before?
If they now use your methods to pre-calibarte, they just became truly excellent value in my opinion.
New FSIs should also have some kind of “Lightspace Certified” sticker.
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Hey Jake!
You mean you import the same XMl twice, and each time it adds more stuff to the media pool?
ANd Cannon, thanks for the GREAT tip, I’ll try it!
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I have the new version. Measuring using a rented Hubble, it indeed made the monitor less accurate. It also clipped whites over 230 or so (8 bit RBG 230) which is truly awful. If it cost more, there is a case for full-on fraud against HP.
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Try switching between RGB and YUV output on both the decklink and your aja. It could be that your projector is only 10-bit capable in one of those spaces
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I mention DVI because other software don’t seem to play nice with the Decklink especially in 4L/5K (Photoshop, Premiere, etc.) and feed out via DVI.
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[Mike Nagel] ”
Indeed I was wondering if the HP calibration kit is any good, for the sole reason that others have claimed it does a good job – I would have been surprised if it can match any of the Pro packages.
“No – It’s worse than that – it actually makes you monitor LESS ACCURATE – so it is only a negative thing – imagine a cleaning fluid that could only make your house more dirty – same idea.
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I did not know that 12 bits were scaled down to 10 bits for processing. I doubt, in terms of monitoring, that you could ever tell the difference. Whether it’s Lightspace or the eeColor or how they work in combination, I can assert that I have yet to see banding from any good (i.e. not-5D video) image fed through the eeColor with a Lightspace LUT applied – including the tough ones like deep sky gradients.
I can say that the box passes 2K without issue. I have not tried 4K – and have no near plans to purchase a 4K monitor.
It’s true with Lighstapce you only have to probe once for each color space, and then you use the info about your monitor’s behavior/misbehavior top create LUTS for any flavor of colorspace, but most monitor types drift a little – front-projectors and plasmas can drift a lot, so you still have to re-probe every few weeks to stay in tune with how your monitor(s) has/have shifted.
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Indeed it is 10 bit. I verified this by simply feeing the output to a monitor that does not accept 10 bit – it would not accept it until a I switched Davinci back to 8 bit output. Also, a straight pass-through looks exactly identical to going through the eeColor in neutral/linear setting – so it is not discarding anything.
AJA is the device that converts YUV from the Decklink to HDMI RGB, eeColor simply “color tones” the image using a calibration LUT created in Lightspace in a way that corrects and accounts for inaccuracy in my monitor. The eeColor cannot convert 8 bit to 10 bit or YUV to RGB – that is not its function.
BTW – the Dreamcolor calibration kit is 100% useless – it makes the monitor LESS accurate than its factory state. It is so bad it borders on being a claim with the Better Business Bureau. Shame on you HP! (But Kudos for the Dreamcolor itself.)
Also, yes – Davio also has HDMI – forgot that….
Light Illusion sells the eeColor boxes for $700 or so – you can also pay $1500 for the same box with a different badge elsewhere. 😉
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Red’s color problems are long gone.
Use RedColor 3 with an MX chip and you will see no skin tone issues whatsoever.
c300 is for people who are not smart enough or too lazy to learn the simple methods of grading Red footage.
As for price, Red MX packages are around 10-12K on eBay or Reduser. $4000 garage sale is long over.